(09 Jun 2023, 7:23 pm)Adrian wrote Yes, I agree. Them closing all the Newcastle City Centre Metro stations for 'crowd control' is a complete cop out. They've managed to run crowd control on match days for years without issue, but again, it comes back to the lack of out of box thinking, with closure being an easier option than coming up with a proper plan. I don't see why they couldn't have used P1/P2 at St James for East Bound travel, Monument for North and South, then Haymarket and Central for exit only. 

It's not a great advert of a rapid transit system, if you have to shut it down when it's a bit busy.

Stadium of Light I completely agree with, and even match days is a problem. But like I suggested above, there's plenty of retail or office parking space that isn't utilised on an evening, which could instead have served as a temporary Park and Ride site. Much in the same way as Durham do with Lumiere.

The Stadium of Light is ridiculous if you get stuck in it, I did it once on a 56 i was stuck for about 20 mins and that was when they were League One. There needs to be some sort of advertised travel arrangements for people to get home, which advertises public transport, I know in park lane the queues can be huge after a match and on sundays a lot of them are every 30-60 mins.